Omnibus

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Glacier Girl (Entry 530.JB3822)
2026/1/08 | 1h 32 mins.
In which a WWII fighter plane crashes on a Greenland ice sheet in 1942 and is painstakingly recovered and restored by a pilot over two decades. Certificate #25573.
Exiled to Sentosa (Entry 438.LU2319)
2026/1/01 | 1h 50 mins.
In which a politician is banished to Singapore’s theme-park island, recounted by Nathan Jennings. Certificate #41799
E.A. Wallis Budge (Entry 161.IS1901)
2025/12/26 | 1h 32 mins.
In which the illegitimate son of a Cornish housekeeper rises to the top of the British Museum Egyptology department. Featuring futureling and the host of the podcast Books of All Time Rose Judson. Certificate #43419.
Penn Cove Whale Capture (Entry 916.JB0712)
2025/12/18 | 1h 18 mins.
Wherein dozens of Orca were kidnapped in an unspeakable scene and Christopher didn’t bring a laptop (and John didn’t have a camera yet). Certificate #41344.
Grit (Entry 551.PR1004)
2025/12/11 | 1h 48 mins.
In which a plucky immigrant "printer's devil" creates a newspaper that puzzles and pays off generations of young American boys, and John avoids a chainsaw duel. Certificate #31682.

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Every week, Ken Jennings and John Roderick add a new entry to the OMNIBUS, an encyclopedic reference work of strange-but-true stories that they are compiling as a time capsule for future generations.

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